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The executioner's song

Title
The executioner's song / Norman Mailer.
Author
Mailer, Norman.
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown and Company, ©1979.

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Additional Authors
Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP
Description
1056 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Re-creates the crime, trial and events leading to the execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who requested the death sentence.
Subject
  • Gilmore, Gary > Fiction
  • Gilmore, Gary
  • 1900-1999
  • Death row inmates > Utah > Fiction
  • American fiction > 20th century
  • American fiction
  • Death row inmates
  • Fernsehproduzent
  • Utah > Fiction
  • Utah
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
  • Biographical fiction
  • Fiction
  • Biographical fiction.
  • Legal stories.
  • Dust jackets – United States – 20th century.
Contents
  • Western voices. Gary -- Nicole -- Gary and Nicole -- The gas station and the motel -- The shadows of the dream -- The trial of Gary M. Gilmore -- Death row -- Eastern voices. In the reign of good King Boaz -- Exclusive rights -- The hunger strike -- The holiday season -- Pressures -- Into the light -- The fading of the heart.
  • Book one : Western voices -- Book two : Eastern voices.
ISBN
  • 0316544175
  • 9780316544177
  • 9780446584388
  • 044658438X
  • 0375700811
  • 9780375700811
LCCN
79017193
OCLC
  • ocm05170655
  • 5170655
  • SCSB-8914311
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library